War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

when it is a beloved and intimate human being that is dying, besides this horror at the extinction of life there is a severance, a spiritual wound, which like a physical wound is sometimes fatal and sometimes heals, but always aches and shrinks at any external irritating touch.

Noted

Petya’s death had torn from her half her life. When the news of Petya’s death had come she had been a fresh and vigorous woman of fifty, but a month later she left her room a listless old woman taking no interest in life.

Noted

Together they felt more in harmony with one another than either of them felt with herself when alone. A feeling stronger than friendship sprang up between them; an exclusive feeling of life being possible only in each other’s presence.

Me and Swee'pea

But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered.

Lucky

the thought of his wife which had been a continual torment to him was no longer there, since she was no more.

Noted

watching the movement of history, we see that every year and with each new writer, opinion as to what is good for mankind changes; so that what once seemed good, ten years later seems bad, and vice versa. And what is more, we find at one and the same time quite contradictory views as to what is bad and what is good in history:

Noted

The ignorance of his colleagues, the weakness and insignificance of his opponents, the frankness of his falsehoods, and the dazzling and self-confident limitations of this man raise him to the head of the army.

obama

This famous declaration, signed at first by the Emperors of Russia and Austria and the King of Prussia, was a precursor of the League of Nations and was quite sincerely intended to ensure the preservation of peace, but gradually it became a reactionary instrument for the suppression of freedom and the maintenance of despotism. It died a natural death owing to disagreements between the great Powers.—A.M.

Noted

This famous declaration, signed at first by the Emperors of Russia and Austria and the King of Prussia, was a precursor of the League of Nations and was quite sincerely intended to ensure the preservation of peace, but gradually it became a reactionary instrument for the suppression of freedom and the maintenance of despotism. It died a natural death owing to disagreements between the great Powers.—A.M.

Noted

millions of Christian men professing the law of love of their fellows slew one another.

as usual